Board Thread:Roleplay Forum - Major Events/@comment-17703532-20161203162908/@comment-17703532-20161203192747

Takamina laughed at the memory - along with some of the audience who evidently had been at the theater performance.

"I actually have to start a the day before. Some people know of this because of someone mentioning it on social media, but a few days ago, we, as Team A were practising through some songs, when Hikari-san knocks on the door and asks to share a word with Mei. For some reason, Mei doesn't return to practise, and we of course ask Ayumi-san, our dance instructor, about this. 'Everything is fine, there's no reason to worry', is what we get. Later, I ask Hikari-san about it as well, and guess what she says. Yep, 'Everything is fine, there's no reason to worry.' Of course, this raises a bit of suspicion, but it wouldn't be the first time she's not said something concerning future events. Then, the next morning, Mei is still no-where to be seen. And by now, others have started wondering. And we ask again. 'Everything is fine, there's no reason to worry.'"

She paused. "By now, it's getting really suspicious, but there's not much we can do about it. Then, during our stage show that day, everything goes without a hitch, but right when we're halfway throguh Kyuuseishu, everything shuts off. And I mean everything. The stage lighting, the lighting in the cieling that would normally light up at times like that, the mics, everything. Of course, we were all surprised, and shocked. It doesn't happen very often, you know?"

"But then," Takamina continued. "A red light starts to blink and this hideously annoying beeping sound - you know like in movies when something bad is happening and an alarm is going off? It was exactly like that. And then, slowly raising in volume, we hear voices, voices that are shouting, in sync, might I add, 'Kimura Mei is succeeding! I repeat, Kimura Mei is succeeding.'"

"As you might've guessed by now, our Management likes to play pranks and troll both the members and the fans every now and then, and this was one such time. Not the fact that Mei was succeeding; I doubt even they would prank anyone with that, but rather what happened after the chant. As you might expect, people - including us members - were rather shocked to hear this. And then, the lights switch on again and the music continue playing. And they expected us to perform normally after something like that? The rest of Kyuuseishu and Tameiki were a bit twitchy, you could say. And when I asked Hikari-san about it, she just smiled, and we realized she had planned it from the start."